Interesting To Me Today……August 22, 2017

On my mind today……

Windows & Microsoft

• How Microsoft’s Cortana Is Becoming a Better Listener
• AI seems to rule. Microsoft unveils Brainwave, a system for running super-fast AI
• Microsoft No Longer a PC Company with Deals Like Halliburton, Says Credit Suisse
• Microsoft is fixing a simple reason why voice assistants are so bad
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Business & Technology

• Cool! Boeing and Northrop Grumman tapped to design next US ICBM
• Excellent development. EBay To Sell More African Goods in U.S. as MallforAfrica Tie-Up Expands
• Just now planning to effin’ RETALIATE? Government Hacks Back: US Military Plans Malware Retaliation Against Attackers
• Nice! USAF Picks Key Technologies For F-22 Follow-On
• No, doofuses. It means that he’s strictly adhering to his policy of not overpaying by getting into a bidding war! Another Flop Means Warren Buffett Isn’t Having His Best Year
• It would suck if we’re the targets of cyberstrikes AND didn’t even know it! US Navy collisions stoke cyber threat concerns
• Cyber all the way! Identity Thieves Hijack Cellphone Accounts to Go After Virtual Currency
• EU starts in-depth probe of Bayer, Monsanto deal
• The more the merrier. Minotaur Rocket Prepped For Cape Canaveral Debut
• Starman
• Will we retrain our people quickly enough? Will we even try?  End of the checkout line: the looming crisis for American cashiers
• How the hell is using LSD a ‘good thing’?  Turn on, tune in, by the office
• The search for vaccines against street drugs
• This is why I sometimes give some BS #IoSS “innovations” a chance.  Flights of fancy
• Solar eclipse gives NASA a rare opportunity to study Mercury
• 50 Years Ago an Economist Worried About Unchecked Corporate Power. Here’s What His Theory Got Wrong
• Wow! New Report Finds Police Have Used Tasers in a Staggering Number of Killings
• Good! The B-1 Bomber Has a New Mission
• Apparently not.  Is Anybody Home at HUD?
• Irish Bishops Advise Priests With Children How To 'Face Up' To Responsibilities
• Is this sustainable once the virtual coin mining thingy is over? Ethereum leads AMD and Nvidia GPUs to a historic quarter
• Even AIs? AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude Some African-American Voices
• Ewww! Astronaut urine may be the secret ingredient for traveling to Mars
• “Can you hear me now?” Tiny Membrane-Based Antennas

General Interest

• LeBron James Speaks Out on Charlottesville, President Trump
• Another coward lurking in the darkness. Minneapolis attorney booted from law firm after he’s exposed as the owner of neo-Nazi record label
• How Hate Groups Forced Online Platforms to Reveal Their True Nature
• Damn! Refiner Valero's secret campaign against U.S. biofuels mandates
• Always be watchful. Terrified Uber passenger 'jumped from moving car after driver demanded she pay with sex'
• Silence is being complicit. Why CEOs Can’t Stay Silent in the Wake of Events Like Charlottesville
• I know the ads for it would be hilarious. That’s for damn sure!  Is America Finally Ready for the Bidet?
• Florida Man strikes [out] again! Florida man arrested after refusing to remove Confederate flag hockey mask — and taunting cops instead

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World

• A plot to blow up a plane was foiled because the suspects’ carry-on exceeded weight limit, Lebanese official says
• Wow! Just wow! English Women's National Soccer Player Accuses Coach Of Racism
• How a Journalist Uncovered the True Identity of Jihadi John
• Very true! Binyamin Netanyahu is soft on anti-Semitism when it suits him
• Just WTF?? Illegal industrial dumping was turning dogs blue in Mumbai
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Politics

• Very true. America was never a white country — here’s why it never will be
• You truly can’t make this shit up! Republican lawmaker says it is ‘completely plausible’ Obama staged racist Charlottesville rally
• “Path to the presidency”? Of these United States? This harridan will NEVER be POTUS! You heard it here first! Nikki Haley's path to the presidency runs right past him

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